It is likely related to extensions running in Chrome. The extensions now run in their own process too.

You can open a task manager inside of Chrome itself that might give you some hints about what it is running. You can even match the process IDs in the Chrome Task Manager to the PIDs in Windows Task Manager.

It is likely related to extensions running in Chrome. The extensions now run in their own process too.

You can open a task manager inside of Chrome itself that might give you some hints about what it is running. You can even match the process IDs in the Chrome Task Manager to the PIDs in Windows Task Manager.

I disabled the Norton Security toolbar and the "Windows Command Processor" and "Console Window Host" processes were gone so it was from Norton....
The thing is I don't see these processes on my dads netbook, he also has the Norton Security toolbar, it's a 32 bit windows 8.1 though but with latest Chrome version.

It isolates the thread and memory pools of each tab then all of the processes have some kind of inter-process communication with the main process. This is so one bad actor doesn't take the entire browser down or gain access to memory-space for another tab. Also like most JavaScript implementations, threading at the language level isn't an option because JavaScript doesn't offer any facilities to make it thread-safe which introduces barriers to not using a process-based approach. I suspect that this was done under the guise of security when it's really just a limitation of most modern JS implementations.

I know about Chrome using separate processes for each tab for quite some time now...

I was seeing: "Windows Command Processor" and "Console Window Host" processes which I hadn't seen before. (sorry, maybe I should have used s different thread title)
Found out that these processes belong to the Norton Security toolbar.
I only just found out because I just started using Norton (once again).

I know about Chrome using separate processes for each tab for quite some time now...

I was seeing: "Windows Command Processor" and "Console Window Host" processes which I hadn't seen before. (sorry, maybe I should have used s different thread title)
Found out that these processes belong to the Norton Security toolbar.
I only just found out because I just started using Norton (once again).

I disabled the Norton Security toolbar and the "Windows Command Processor" and "Console Window Host" processes were gone so it was from Norton....
The thing is I don't see these processes on my dads netbook, he also has the Norton Security toolbar, it's a 32 bit windows 8.1 though but with latest Chrome version.